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M.A.R. Barker, author of Tekumel, also author of Neo-Nazi book?
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<blockquote data-quote="Blue Orange" data-source="post: 8578704" data-attributes="member: 7025997"><p>One of the 'Uncaged' series had hammer and sickle magic items in what was obviously supposed to be a positive context, and Communism has its own eight-digit death toll. People more up-to-date could probably come up with better examples.</p><p></p><p>I don't think there's a huge fascism problem in tabletop gaming <em>per se</em>. (Online games are another story...I'm told they're a major recruiting ground.) It may have inclusion problems, but actual fascists seem pretty thin on the ground from what I've seen...even progressive <em>bete noires</em> like the RPGPundit will boot you from their forums if you actually start expressing Nazi views. Barker seems to have kept anything explicit out of his game. Nazis are standard villains, often to a ridiculous degree (Cthulhu Dark Ages has evil cults whose symbol is a swastika...though I suppose in-game maybe the historical Nazis were descendants of the evil cults, which is very Cthulhu).</p><p></p><p>Tabletop games, for whatever reason, seem to lean heavily left (maybe in reaction to the Satanic Panic of the 80s driving off a large fraction of the right? no clue). But I don't think support for Communist cells is a 'burning issue'.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue Orange, post: 8578704, member: 7025997"] One of the 'Uncaged' series had hammer and sickle magic items in what was obviously supposed to be a positive context, and Communism has its own eight-digit death toll. People more up-to-date could probably come up with better examples. I don't think there's a huge fascism problem in tabletop gaming [I]per se[/I]. (Online games are another story...I'm told they're a major recruiting ground.) It may have inclusion problems, but actual fascists seem pretty thin on the ground from what I've seen...even progressive [I]bete noires[/I] like the RPGPundit will boot you from their forums if you actually start expressing Nazi views. Barker seems to have kept anything explicit out of his game. Nazis are standard villains, often to a ridiculous degree (Cthulhu Dark Ages has evil cults whose symbol is a swastika...though I suppose in-game maybe the historical Nazis were descendants of the evil cults, which is very Cthulhu). Tabletop games, for whatever reason, seem to lean heavily left (maybe in reaction to the Satanic Panic of the 80s driving off a large fraction of the right? no clue). But I don't think support for Communist cells is a 'burning issue'. [/QUOTE]
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